Tom O' Brien, author and playwright

A LOAF OF BREAD AND A CAN OF SPECIAL BREW

He sat on a seafront bench
A loaf of bread and a can of Special Brew
By his side,
Speaking to someone who wasn’t there.
Thoough these day you can never tell
Whether they are or not;
He may have had a mobile phone in his ear.
Then he spoke to me;‘What are you fucking looking at, blue?’
Yeah, I thought, that figures,‘And a happy New Year to you too’